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Nobody shirked-- or almost nobody.

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He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones' time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either.

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"Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey," and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.

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Snowball also busied himself with organising the other animals into what he called Animal Committees. He was indefatigable at this.

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He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harness room and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.

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"Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side and whisking his tail, "surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"

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Bulls which have always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side.

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...they pretended to think it merely ridiculous. They could not understand, they said, how even animals could bring themselves to sing such contemptible rubbish

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Any animal caught singing it was given a flogging on the spot. And yet the song was irrepressible.

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And so within five minutes of their invasion they were in ignominious retreat by the same way they had come, with a flock of geese hissing after them and pecking at their calves all the way.